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ArticleBio-protocol2021

A Simple Spatial-independent Associative and Reversal Learning Task in Mice.

Fulvio Magara, Benjamin Boury-Jamot, Hanna Hörnberg

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Article in Bio-protocol, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fulvio MagaraCentre for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Benjamin Boury-JamotCentre for Psychiatric Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Hanna HörnbergMolecular and Cellular basis of Behavior, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
University of Lausanne · CHCharité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to adapt one's behavior in response to changing circumstances, or cognitive flexibility, is often altered in neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. In rodents, cognitive flexibility is frequently assessed using associative learning paradigms with a reversal component. The majority of existing protocols rely on unrestrictive exploration with no discouragement of wrong responses and are often influenced by spatial cues, at least during the test's learning phase. Here, we present a rewarded contingency discrimination learning test that minimizes the task's spatial component and contains an element that actively discourages pure exploratory responses. The method described herein is a manual version that can be performed using home-made equipment, but the test setup is amenable to automatization and can be adapted to address more complex cognitive demands, including conditional associative learning, attentional set formation, and attention shifting.

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Associative learningBehaviorCognitive flexibilityDiscrimination learningMemoryPerseverationReversal learning

Identifiers

PMID34458402
PMCPMC8376489
OpenAlexW3187933311

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